Sure I noticed that... Man, I hate this overserious tendency in Linux lately, taking the fun out of everything.
Anyway, I bulit myself a deb package (amd64) out of this code: https://github.com/yath/debian-ddate Seems like there are plans to add a ddate package into Debian repos: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764383 I guess it will be mirrored to Ubuntu then? ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #764383 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764383 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to util-linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/988925 Title: util-linux no longer provides ddate Status in “util-linux” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Having just upgraded to 12.04, I was dismayed to discover that ddate is longer present on my system. In previous releases it was provided by util-linux, and according to the online man page (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/ddate.1.html) it is still supposed to be provided. However: lesslie@hal:~> ddate No command 'ddate' found, did you mean: Command 'hdate' from package 'libhdate1' (main) Command 'sdate' from package 'sdate' (universe) Command 'rdate' from package 'rdate' (main) Command 'idate' from package 'itools' (universe) Command 'date' from package 'coreutils' (main) ddate: command not found System information below. lesslie@hal:~> lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Release: 12.04 lesslie@hal:~> apt-cache policy util-linux util-linux: Installed: 2.20.1-1ubuntu3 Candidate: 2.20.1-1ubuntu3 Version table: *** 2.20.1-1ubuntu3 0 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status What I expected: ddate to be available on my system What happened instead: ddate is not available on my system To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/988925/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
